Soprano Mary Lou Fallis, Canada's foremost musical comedienne, will bring her cabaret show, "More or Less Live," to Stratford on Monday, March 28.

The show will be something of a homecoming for Fallis's "Primadonna" persona, which she created for the first season of Stratford Summer Music in 1981. Presented at a late-night cabaret at Stratford City Hall, her classic music comedy performance was so well received that it propelled Fallis, by then an accomplished operatic singer, in a new direction in her career.

Also well known for the Bravo television series Bathroom Divas, Fallis has toured extensively in the United Kingdom as well as in Japan and Iceland. Her latest incarnations of Primadonna are "Primadonna on a Moose," a CD recorded with members of the Toronto Symphony, and "Primadonna Goes Camping," which premiered outdoors on a wilderness lake in Halliburton.

Her show also stars pianist and former CBC host Peter Tiefenbach. Fallis describes the show as "an evening of serious musical high jinks," with definitive performances of familiar vocal classics and some newly invented classics, including a tribute to William Shakespeare, which was hatched for the 50th anniversary of the Stratford Festival in 2002.

[See Fallis and Tiefenbach in full regalia.]

Tickets ($50) are available at Anything Grows and Fanfare Books in Stratford or online at www.stratfordsymphonyorchestra.ca. The concert is a fundraiser in support of the Stratford Symphony Orchestra. It will be held at Central United Church, 194 Avondale Avenue in Stratford, on Monday, March 28, at 7:30 p.m.